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The Virtual Display Driver is a driver solution that enables the creation of virtual monitors on Windows 10 and 11 systems. These virtual monitors function just like physical displays, allowing users to extend their desktop environment, enhance remote work setups, support VR applications, and improve streaming and recording workflows.
This driver allows for the addition of high-resolution virtual displays, supporting resolutions from 640x480 up to 7680x4320 (8K), and a wide range of refresh rates, including 60Hz, 75Hz, 90Hz, 120Hz, 144Hz, 165Hz, and floating point ones like 59.99Hz.
- Virtual Monitors: Add virtual monitors with resolutions from 640x480 to 7680x4320 (8K).
- High Refresh Rates: Supports refresh rates including 60Hz, 75Hz, 90Hz, 120Hz, 144Hz, 165Hz, 240Hz, 480Hz, and 500Hz.
- Compatibility: Works with VR, OBS, Sunshine, and other desktop sharing software.
- Flexibility: Allows you to adjust resolutions and refresh rates beyond the capabilities of physical displays and configure it more than a lot of other virtual display drivers.
A virtual display driver simulates additional monitors in the system, enabling users to stream desktops to VR environments like Oculus or Sunshine. It creates virtual screens that can be managed and toggled on/off, allowing for multi-monitor setups without physical hardware. This driver is essential for VR desktop streaming, offering flexibility to display content inside a VR headset in steam theatre mode, enhancing remote desktop experiences, and enabling developers to test applications across multiple virtual screens. By adjusting display settings or enabling virtual monitors, users can optimize their VR and multitasking setups for various tasks.
The table below shows a comparison with other popular virtual display projects:
| Project | Iddcx Version | Signed | SDR | HDR | H-Cursor | Tweakable | ARM64 Support | Custom EDID | Floating Point Refresh Rates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virtual Display Driver | 1.10 (latest) | ✅ | ✅ (8/10bit) | ✅ (8/10/12bit) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| usbmmidd_v2 | - | ✅ | ✅ (8bit) | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| virtual-display-rs | 1.5 | - | ✅ (8bit) | - | #81 | ✅ | - | - | - |
| parsec-vdd | 1.5 | ✅ | ✅ (8bit) | - | ✅ | 🆗 | - | - | - |
| IddSampleDriver | 1.2 | - | ✅ (8bit) | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| RustDeskIddDriver | 1.2 | - | ✅ (8bit) | - | - | - | - | - | - |
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The Virtual Display Driver project is maintained by a dedicated team of developers:
- MikeTheTech: The project creator and overseer of the project "and great boss" (quote by Bud)
- Bud: The core developer who handles most of the coding and implementation work of new features and optimizations.
- Jocke: Focuses on writing PowerShell scripts and contributing to user support whilst also being the idea man.
We welcome contributions from the community! If you have any suggestions or improvements, please feel free to open an issue. Or if you'd like to donate to support our work, that would be greatly appreciated.
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.